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Jigar
09 August 2007, 07:29 PM
Namaste,

cannibalism is still being practiced in India by members Hindu Aghora sect. Even more amazing is the implication that this sect may be responsible for the deaths of Western tourists who go missing - sacrifices for Indian religion. It is also indicated more than once that babies and children are prized sacrifices for cannibalistic consumption. Ritual murder of babies? Cannibalism for spiritual power? The PakTribune is a Pakistani news outlet and it seems much more likely that the story is designed to inflame passions against India than to inform about a weird and possibly dangerous religious sect.

What do you think of this article by PakTribune? I think this is true. I for One like white meat. :lol:

Maste nam,
Jigar

Nuno Matos
09 August 2007, 10:20 PM
Namaste Jigar

Here on the west we are doing the same thing all the time and around the world!
Its curios that according to CIA India has one of the lowest tax murders and tax abduction in the all world for one of the largest population density.
Lol
More Info please e-mail me!:laugh:

satay
09 August 2007, 11:33 PM
Namaste,

cannibalism is still being practiced in India by members Hindu Aghora sect. Even more amazing is the implication that this sect may be responsible for the deaths of Western tourists who go missing - sacrifices for Indian religion. It is also indicated more than once that babies and children are prized sacrifices for cannibalistic consumption. Ritual murder of babies? Cannibalism for spiritual power? The PakTribune is a Pakistani news outlet and it seems much more likely that the story is designed to inflame passions against India than to inform about a weird and possibly dangerous religious sect.

What do you think of this article by PakTribune? I think this is true. I for One like white meat. :lol:

Maste nam,
Jigar

Namaste,

You want hindus to learn about aghora sadhus from the nonsense of the 'paktribune'? :headscratch:

Please stop propagating such nonsense and do your own research before you call the aghora a 'dangerous religious sect'! :po:

Jigar
09 August 2007, 11:44 PM
Namaste,

You want hindus to learn about aghora sadhus from the nonsense of the 'paktribune'? :headscratch:

Please stop propagating such nonsense and do your own research before you call the aghora a 'dangerous religious sect'! :po:

Namaste,
I was watching E! channel last month and there was these mexicans that kidnapped college students having fun on spring break and ritually ate them. :WOAH:
I cant believe i witnessed this probability on T V while eating my lunch.

maste nam,
jigar

satay
09 August 2007, 11:49 PM
Namaste,
I was watching E! channel last month and there was these mexicans that kidnapped college students having fun on spring break and ritually ate them. :WOAH:
I cant believe i witnessed this probability on T V while eating my lunch.

maste nam,
jigar

I haven't seen this show so not sure what they were showing but how is that related to aghoris?

satay
09 August 2007, 11:51 PM
You may read more about Aghori sadhus here http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=86

Nuno Matos
10 August 2007, 12:15 AM
Namaste Jigar

Mexican? Hum! They must be descendent's of the great Mayas. Back to India, Ahagoris its true that sometimes they eat human flesh from dead corpses they say that by eating that flesh they acquire some portion of that man shackti s and speed up that man salvation from the cycle of rebirths.They don't have the orthodox view of purity. I know that for the fact that i have a friend of mine that went to India and Nepal some years ago and he meet an Aghori sadhu, so he told me.
There was some more violent sect of Hindus in the past called the Kapalikas who wore know for religious murdering. Thanks good they wore all wiped out from the Arabic sea coast by the Portuguese at the request of local Hindu priests and Maharajs.And you have the Thugges know for murdering and stealing.
But as far as i know none of the last sects referred ( Kapalikas and Thugges) are still alive in India now a days.
Just one curiosity Kapalikas are credit with the invention of temple worship in India and all this extreme sects Killed Hindus and rarely foreigners.

sarabhanga
10 August 2007, 02:16 AM
Namaste,

See this article for a more balanced view: http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1994/3/1994-3-09.shtml

sm78
10 August 2007, 03:58 AM
There was some more violent sect of Hindus in the past called the Kapalikas who wore know for religious murdering. Thanks good they wore all wiped out from the Arabic sea coast by the Portuguese at the request of local Hindu priests and Maharajs.

The Portuguese tried to wipe out all Indians who did not convert to their band of christianity ~ brahmins, sudras or muslims alike.

I thank god that they did not go too far in conquering India.

Nuno Matos
10 August 2007, 04:43 AM
Namaste Singhi Kaya


Maybe you are right, I hope you are. But it was not quite like that! At least in the beginning and the prof is, that Goa was almost given to the Portuguese's for their help fighting the muslin ruler of that region and both Portuguese's and Hindus had a period of prosperity.
Portuguese's have a long time relation with India that's the only fact that I am pointing out. I promise that if no special circumstance comes about i will talk no more about Portuguese´s and their presence in India on that period.
Never the less i think Indians should know better their true history.

Agnideva
10 August 2007, 05:58 AM
Namaste Nuno,

At least in the beginning and the prof is, that Goa was almost given to the Portuguese's for their help fighting the muslin ruler of that region and both Portuguese's and Hindus had a period of prosperity.
Given by who Nuno? Since the 10th century, Gomantak (Goa) was ruled by the Kadamba dynasty. By the mid-1300s, it fell under Muslim Sultantes. For a period of time, the region was taken over by the Vijaynagar Hindu Empire of South India, but again lost to the Sultan of Bijapur by the mid-1400s. When Alfanso de Albuquerque reached there in 1510, it was indeed the Hindu generals (Nayaks), particulary Timoja, who helped him in his conquest to liberate it from Islamic hands. It was only ~30 years later that the Jesuits and Francis Xavier came with the inquisition (we all know what happened next). Two centuries later, Shahuji, the grandson of Shivaji Maharaj, almost took control of the region, but more reinforcements came from Portugal to defeat his forces in Bardez. The regions gained therein were called Novas Conquestas.


I promise that if no special circumstance comes about i will talk no more about Portuguese´s and their presence in India on that period.
Never the less i think Indians should know better their true history.No, please do not stop speaking about history. It is important for us to know history as it is, and not an emotional version of it. Starting in the mid-1700s the Portuguese themselves expelled (and executed) the Jesuits, putting an end to the inquisition. Since then, there has been religious freedom. Hindus and their religious institutions were invited back and Hinduism made a comeback in the region since the 1800s. All the original Hindu institutions have been re-established, although not in their original spots. Originally, most of the temples and religious institutions were located in Brahmapuri (Goa Velha), but most of them are now in Novas Conquestas.

OM Shanti,
A.

sarabhanga
10 August 2007, 06:31 AM
Namaste,

The Portuguese ruled Goa for about 450 years, and Goan Hindus only had to endure the Inquisition (http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1111142225) for 252 of those years. :rolleyes:

sm78
10 August 2007, 07:53 AM
Namaste Nuno,

Given by who Nuno? Since the 10th century, Gomantak (Goa) was ruled by the Kadamba dynasty. By the mid-1300s, it fell under Muslim Sultantes. For a period of time, the region was taken over by the Vijaynagar Hindu Empire of South India, but again lost to the Sultan of Bijapur by the mid-1400s. When Alfanso de Albuquerque reached there in 1510, it was indeed the Hindu generals (Nayaks), particulary Timoja, who helped him in his conquest to liberate it from Islamic hands. It was only ~30 years later that the Jesuits and Francis Xavier came with the inquisition (we all know what happened next). Two centuries later, Shahuji, the grandson of Shivaji Maharaj, almost took control of the region, but more reinforcements came from Portugal to defeat his forces in Bardez. The regions gained therein were called Novas Conquestas.

No, please do not stop speaking about history. It is important for us to know history as it is, and not an emotional version of it. Starting in the mid-1700s the Portuguese themselves expelled (and executed) the Jesuits, putting an end to the inquisition. Since then, there has been religious freedom. Hindus and their religious institutions were invited back and Hinduism made a comeback in the region since the 1800s. All the original Hindu institutions have been re-established, although not in their original spots. Originally, most of the temples and religious institutions were located in Brahmapuri (Goa Velha), but most of them are now in Novas Conquestas.

OM Shanti,
A.

Thanks Agnideva ... there cannot be a more fair post on the issue.

Nuno, I was not trying to get at you, but wanted to remind ourselves that history has multiple angles. It may be that Hindu's originally supported the Portuguese in an effort to get freedom from muslim rulers. But the history that following in not exactly that of allies ~ No other western conquering race could re-enact the inquisition in India. St Francis Xavier is a blot in history which must also be mentioned if you are talking about Portuguese history in India. That's all.

Nuno Matos
10 August 2007, 03:04 PM
Namaste all

Thank you Sarabhanga and Agnideva for your sympathy. In fact the inquisition was some horrible thing for Hindus as for Portuguese as well. What happened in Goa also happened in Portugal with the persecution of witch's and witch doctors ( in here they wore called virtuosos) and heretics as well.

sm78
13 August 2007, 01:12 AM
Yes its a religious thing and not nationalistic or racial.